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Is interview query about motherhood fair?

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Amy Dickinson, Ask Amy Ask Amy

Amy Dickinson is a general advice columnist.

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DEAR AMY: I have been out of the workforce for 10 years while being a stay-at-home mom to our son. I recently have interviewed for positions for evenings, nights and/or weekends (my husband would stay with our son). During all of these interviews, I have been asked, point-blank, "Do you have children?" My initial thought is, "Can you really ask me that?!" The first time I was...

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